Santa Maria del Popolo Rome: Caravaggio, Raphael and Visiting Guide
Santa Maria del Popolo is one of Rome’s richest churches for art, yet it is easy to walk past it while crossing Piazza del Popolo. Inside a relatively compact basilica you can see two of Caravaggio’s most dramatic paintings, a chapel designed by Raphael and later reshaped by Bernini, Renaissance frescoes linked to Pinturicchio, important…